apathia

Latin

Etymology

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Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)

Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.

Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos)

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ēs

Proto-Hellenic *-ēs

Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)

Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs)

Ancient Greek ἀπαθής (apathḗs)

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.

Ancient Greek -ιᾰ (-iă)

Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia)bor.

Latin apathīa

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia, “insensibility, freedom from emotion”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.paˈtʰiː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.paˈtiː.a]

Noun

apathīa f (genitive apathīae); first declension

1. A freedom from passion or feeling; insensibility; stoicism.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	apathīa	apathīae
genitive	apathīae	apathīārum
dative	apathīae	apathīīs
accusative	apathīam	apathīās
ablative	apathīā	apathīīs
vocative	apathīa	apathīae

Synonyms

• (insensibility): dūritia, immōbilitās

Descendants

• Catalan: apatia
• English: apathy
• French: apathie
  • → Bulgarian: апа́тия (apátija)
  • → Dutch: apathie
    • → Indonesian: apati
  • → English: apathy
  • → Romanian: apatie
  • → Turkish: apati
• Galician: apatía
• Italian: apatia
• Occitan: apatia
• Portuguese: apatia
• Spanish: apatía
• → Czech: apatie
• → Danish: apati
• → Esperanto: apatia
• → Estonian: apaatia
• → Finnish: apatia
• → German: Apathie
• → Hebrew: אָפַּתְיָה (apatia)
• → Hungarian: apátia
• → Macedonian: апатија (apatija)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: apati
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: apati
• → Polish: apatia
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: апатија
  • Latin script: apatija
• → Slovak: apatia
• → Slovene: apatia
• → Swedish: apati
• → Ukrainian: апа́тія (apátija)
• → Yiddish: אַפּאַטיע (apatye)

References

• “apathia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apathia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.